| Time |
Event |
| 9:53p |
|
| 9:53p |
US utilities shut off power to millions
*US utilities shut off power to millions amid record corporate profits.*
It's the government's responsibility to prevent such harm. There are
various ways to do it. One way would be to increase the taxes those
utilities (and other corporations) actually pay, and give some of that
money to poor Americans.
|
| 9:53p |
Criminalizing anything irregular
The US has a leaning towards criminalizing anything irregular.
A 29-year-old woman faces criminal charges for claiming to be a teenager
so as to enroll in a public school, and presenting a false birth certificate
to make that possible.
I can't understand this response -- wouldn't it be sufficient to
disenroll her? None of the articles I have seen makes any attempt to
justify or explain the harshness. Perhaps the reason is taboo.
|
| 9:53p |
(Satire) ChatGPT bar exam
(satire) *ChatGPT Forced To Take Bar Exam Even Though
Dream Was To Be AI Art Bot.*
If an Onion page appears blank, try disabling Javascript entirely or
telling LibreJS to blacklist all scripts in the page, then
right-click and select item "Reveal hidden HTML". Or use a browser
such as lynx that doesn't implement Javascript and CSS.
|
| 9:53p |
|
| 9:53p |
Replacing concrete and steel
Replacing concrete and steel in construction with sophisticated spiral
plywood can reduce CO2 emissions by 40%, because the carbon in the wood
never gets converted to CO2.
It can even be fireproof in temperatures that would melt steel.
|
| 9:53p |
Dementia home care in UK systematically skimping
Agencies that send workers to visit demented people at home
in the UK have been systematically skimping.
The term "agency" might suggest that this is a state agency, but I
suspect that it refers in this case to a profit making business.
Can anyone tell me for a fact whether that is so?
If this is a business, I suspect it is making money hand over fist,
paying its workers a pittance and charging patients' families for work
not done. But I find it hard to believe that the workers initiated
the practice and hide the fraud from their employer. I can't help
suspecting that the business taught its workers to engage in fraud,
and that the state knows about it but looks the other way.
|
| 9:53p |
Israel attacks Iran
Drones were used to attack some sort of building or base in Iran.
US officials said that Israel carried out the attack.
We don't know what that target is, or what it does, or what purpose it
serves. However, this is likely to provoke war with Iran.
|
| 9:53p |
Flaw with the term "gender-affirming surgery"
The term "gender-affirming surgery" has a serious flaw as a way of
defining a category of surgical operations: it is subjective, not
objective. Specifically, it is stated in terms of what someone
(presumably the patient) thinks about the operation, not in terms of
what the operation concretely does.
One patient might say, "I see this operation as affirming my gender,
so I want to have it." Another patient might say, of the same
operation, "This would go against gender, so I don't want it."
We need an objective way to define and refer to this class of
operations, one independent of whether a given patient wants such an
operation or not.
|
| 9:53p |
|
| 9:53p |
|
| 9:53p |
|